Page numbers in powerpoint

[Guest]

I have a Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2003 Presentation and I wanted to change
the slide number 3 as Page 1 (which is page 3 now). The first slide is Title
Master and second slide is TOC (Table of Contents). So, page number 1
actually starts on slide number 3. Is there any guru there to solve this
problem.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Luc]

Unknown,
I don't know of any means to do that in PowerPoint.
You could make two shows and hyperlink between them. That way the viewer
would not notice. Other than that number them manually, but that is a pain.

 

[Guest]

This vba should do it (untested)

'code starts
Sub sectionnum()
Dim n As Integer, num As Integer
num = 1
For n = 3 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count
With ActivePresentation.Slides(n)

..Shapes.AddTextbox(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, _
Left:=550, Top:=500, Width:=150, Height:=50). _
TextFrame.TextRange.Text = "Slide " & num
num = num + 1

End With
Next
End Sub
'code ends

Start with an unnumbered presentation

alt + f11 to go to vb editor
Insert module
copy the code above and paste in to module

click the powerpoint icon top left to go back and use tools > macros>macro >
run to use

I suggest working on a copy at first!